a journey the destination right finds out a game tree. oh, this is deed of you news live from berlin. countries around the world ring in the new year from the beaches of rio de janeiro and brazil to sydney's harbor bridge in australia. thousands gather to usher in 2023. after 2 years of restricted events.

also on the show. at a new year's day mass pope francis prays for his predecessor safe passage to heaven . as the world says farewell to benedict the 6th and his ear draws to a close, the ukraine gets no respite from russian attacks. as more missiles rained down in the capital key. ah, i'm expires, are happy new year and welcome to the program. a wave of new year's celebrations has swept across the globe as the count down to 2023 moves west. the party was in full swing across europe and africa on saturday night, as cities returned to full scale celebrations. following 2 years of restricted events. from sydney's iconic harbor bridge to times square in new york

to rio de janeiro copa cabana beach. the world's 8000000000 inhabitants welcomed 2023 with a bag while there was no official fireworks display in the german capital berlin. it didn't stop the city's residence from turning the night sky into a festive spectacle. mindy egyptian capital cairo people were treated to a fireworks display on the nile revelers and paris gathered on the shells. alizae. many had hopes for a better 12 months ahead. ed domains on 2023. i hope it will be a year full of surprises, full of happiness, full of success and the lots of good things. happy new year. i have be one bed box piece everywhere. people must help fighting lights and music filled the streets of

karachi and pakistan. people there wishing for a brighter future after a year of widespread hardship. i know we know we must kill the seeds of hatred dog and so the seeds of love on him all as the new year begin off. we should renew our pledge to be able to love each other. animal but the job, i got it back on me. britain's capital london lit up in the colors of ukraine. and paid tribute to the late queen elizabeth the 2nd was greater understand as the world said good bye to another memorable year. in separate new year's speech, as the leaders of both russia and ukraine vowed to push for victory over each other . fresh blasts were heard in ukraine's capital cave and around the country. russia

bond cities across ukraine on saturday, sending a barrage of over 20 cruise missiles. keith, mayor vitale pledge go said at least one person was killed and a japanese journalist is among goes injured. russian missiles over ukraine on the last day of the year. several waves of attacks hit key infrastructure with debris also falling on a residential area. will not the shock from the blast through me and my husband against the wall? we fell on the floor in the corridor. then we heard the glass in the window shatter, and then there was explosion after explosion. the attack on the ukrainian capital lasted almost 3 hours in the center of cave, a russian missile hit in front of a hotel. what particularly shocked people here was the timing of the attack, dockwood shout, or the least on this holiday. the day the whole world celebrates,

we were hoping for a miracle. instead, you're sitting in the corridor and you don't know at all if you'll be alive to morrow. even necessarily this after this event, when i'm hired as a 6th, the drying with all them might do spa, new years for us. but the conduit twisty, we will prevail and when was death and destruction, it is a bitter end of the year for the people of keith. and for more on this, let's bring in our correspondence and chiva menu. shes a manual that 2023 in ukraine as we just heard off to a very rough start. tell us the latest about the attacks honey, can a happy new year for us? yes, sir. very hard time here and key. if we've just been 2 or 3 days off a constant or asked try a thread and air strikes, we have a 3 nights with her at me saw the tax just last night. there was a very, very long thread which lasted for hours during which $32.00 shahid iranian drones

were shut down over key if yesterday me size a truck or capitol the ukrainian capital as a hotel which had been heat. and you mentioned it earlier, 20 o 2 people were injured. some on died. so a very rare, very a rough times to a b 2 and a 2022 for ukrainians. and to begin this new year 2023. and you spent as too many residents of the capital, a good part of the night in a bomb shelter was keep residents who knew of course the rest of the world was ringing in the new year with joy. what's the morale among people there? well, it was pretty strange, especially those past 3 days, as i mentioned because we spent, we people here leaving and key of we spent so much time under ground just, you know, hearing explosions outside. sometimes here in the city center, we was chattering with a windows or

a shattering as well. so it's very scary and we've had in the report this woman saying she was hoping for a miracle. you know, yesterday people in the morning it was a beautiful morning, a sunny morning, the last day of, of a very hard year. people were looking forward to celebrate. instead, there were stuck on the ground. they were hearing explosions. above, above, above them. they leave in fear, of course, their resilience, but there's fear there as well. and there's a sense of dread, because they don't know when this all will end. and the president president vote, and there's a lensky made as president, do a new year's address. tell us more about that and, and how it was received, if you don't mind well at this address was very particular i was talking about is earlier with a ukrainian friends who told me all the people that i know he watched this address . there wouldn't necessarily do that every year, but the series. so particular in this year we, the also serve, allowed him,

is the lensky gaining, or, you know, at the trusts or every ukrainian, many people here didn't vote for him as a president, but then he really revealed himself us the countries leader on february 24th. then at ukrainians at the moment reading rally around him and his speech was very much centered on ukrainians themselves on, on their you know, or their silly diary t on the fact that they have to stand together to face the terrible, terrible war daddy's unfolded unfolding against them so at this address was very much followed, very much appreciated as well, and very emotional. ok as well. one can well imagine d, w is a manual shot reporting force from the ukrainian capital. thanks so much. let's have a look now at some of the other stores making headlines around the world. at least 9 people have been killed in a stampede during new year celebration near uganda,

capital kampala, authority, say the crush happened in a shopping mall corridor. as people rushed outside to see a fireworks display, a 10 year old boys among the dead. p in georgia. jim jones owner has ordered north korea's military to drastically increase its nuclear arsenal. comments came to us hours after north korea mark the new year with another ballistic missile launch following a record number of tests. last year, south korea's president called the launch of provocation and said his country should retaliate. o croatia is now officially part of the e. use open borders shank in agreement and it has adopted the euro. people have been able to withdraw euro's from local cash machines since midnight to join the blocks monetary system croatia had to fulfill a set of strict economic conditions. pope frances has held the vatican's traditional new year's day mass a day after the death of his predecessor francis took

a break from his prepared address to honor former pope benedict the as tributes come in from around the world. benedict died saturday at the age of $95.00. his health had been in decline for several years and he had been largely absent from public view. bell stony announcing that that a formidable benedict and many are being the respect back that though he was appropriate will go down in history for an enormously significant fact. which was his resignation that had not happened for 600 years. and it was a gesture of great freedom, great audacity and great courage, really defeated praise him for being the 1st to meet the victims of fiction abuse within the catholic church. or he was elected pope. he was in charge of the doctrinal section b. c, which had responsibility for issues to do with, with sexual abuse from should on christ. so he personally was responsible for the

layer size issue over $400.00 priests around the world that sexual abuse scandal. what's a divisive issue? benedict post repeatedly, courtesy for not doing enough. i don't remember him as a religious leader. valley was me was did no trip within them. morton weren't. it's a physical issue. he was surely a very strong thinker. i love to law the positions she took on emotionally and homosexuality said they're really of a different age. i think his dogma, if he wasn't living in the same world, but for many people in germany, book benedict was a source of fright. he was germany 1st pontiff in almost 500 years, the da, she put it in this morning down the house, where benedict with born has been opened and a book of condolences is on display on benediction. but i am of course,

concerned and sadly, but you have to say he already wrote in february after 10 years as prob ameritas, that he is now ready in prayer and devotion. he said he is ready to go before his judge. so this is a good idea for and that he is ready for the last earthly journey. it's the addition big book. benedict body will be displayed in st. peter's by silly kind jim for 3 days, followed by his funeral on thursday. and for more, let's go straight to our special correspondent abraham in rome ear. what are things like now the vatican? so on monday, in st. peter's basilica right behind me o. former pope benedict body will be lying and state farm mourners to come and pay their last respects and as you can see around me in the past, just in the past couple of hours, we've seen security preparations for that event. these railings,

i have been put up just in the past half hour, hour or so, and the idea is to accommodate the masses. we're going to be lining up here to go through security towards the end, a couple of meters in that direction to go pay their respect and then exit on the other direction. these are also there in case emergency services need to reach a st. peter's square a fast, it is expected that starting tomorrow at these, these streets will be lined and crowded with people and it, it has the fact that benedict, the 16th removed himself from the limelight in the years after his papacy affected . his perception amongst catholics will certainly frankly, catholics, the job of the pope is a job for life. and so when a po benedict former po benedict stepped down almost a decade ago, it did cause

a lot of shock within the community. and it has now opened up the possibility for future pope's to resign. it's not completely unprecedented. but the last time that a pope stepped on out of his own volition was around 600 years ago. and in a completely different context, he had that pope had step down to bring it into a civil war, essentially within the church. and so now that possibility is out there at the same time, you know, the, the kind of more conservative values that po benedick stood for continued to be popular among some believers, even after he stepped down, while it did cause shock. and created a very interesting precedent. i would, i think the popularity for some of his ideas within the church, whether that, you know, anti abortion, whether it's a conservative view on same sex marriage. there's still a lot of catholics that subscribe to to that set of values. ok, d, w,

special correspondent, abraham in rome before us. thank you. and a reminder, the top story we're following for you. countries around the world welcoming in 2023 with celebrations and fireworks displays. crowds gathered in new york city for a massive party. and in egypt, the river nile lit up for revelers in the capitol chiral. that brings us to the end of our program. i'm nick spicer, thanks for watching it today with love on banning thing that's away from enough but i'm not going to have to watch my own car and everyone.